A promising future seemed to be in store for Donthula Malathi. A campus placement has already been secured for the B.Tech third year student. Being hired immediately after the completion of studies is a big deal for middle-class families, and her family was looking forward to her joining the new company. The fate decided otherwise, however.
Malathi, who went home to Ragudu village near Sircilla town during the Ganesh Nimajjan holidays, died of a scorpion bite on Tuesday. Malathi went to the farm with her family members on Sunday to help harvest the vegetables from their farm. Prior to leaving for the farm, Malathi wore a shirt, as it is customary to wear a shirt while working in the fields.
It was reported that while picking vegetables, she felt something stinging her leg. Unknown to her, there was a scorpion attached to the shirt that stung her.
After Malathi raised a hue and cried, her family rushed her to Sircilla town, about four kilometers from the village. A doctor at the Government hospital who examined her advised her parents to take her to Karimnagar for better treatment as the scorpion poison had spread throughout her body. She was admitted to a hospital in Karimnagar and died there on Tuesday morning.
Malathi, who had been hospitalized for two days, died on Tuesday after her condition deteriorated. The parents sobbed bitterly as their daughter, who was supposed to work and be there for them, passed away in front of their eyes.
As the word of her death spread, the village was enveloped in gloom. As per the reports, Malathi came from a lower middle-class family and had become a role model for all the girls in the village after gaining admission to a private engineering college in Hyderabad.
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